Shannonville, Ontario – The 2024 Super Series schedule will include five rounds of double-header competition to be held between May and September at Shannonville Motorsport Park.

“We are already getting ready for the 2024 season and happy to release our dates so racers can plan their summer,” affirms Series General Manager, Dominique Bondar. “We have been working hard to make the 2024 season free of scheduling conflicts. As a regional series, it’s important to give those who aspire at a racing career the chance to do so without jeopardizing their championship at home. We have seen some great riders mature into remarkable racers within our group and I feel very proud.”

It’s no secret, Shannonville Motorsport Park is the finest venue for grassroots motorcycle racing in Canada. Its different configurations allow for diversity and the Super Series uses this advantage to create a five-event campaign that includes a variety of the best configurations.

The 2024 calendar will also include two racing schools and test days exclusively dedicated to Super Series competitors. The season kicks off on May 3rd with the Spring Super Series Racing School. The following weekend, May 10-12, the riders will take to the track layout for the first double header of the year.

2024 Schedule
Thursday (evening), May 2nd
& Friday (all day), May 3rd
Spring Racing School

Round 1
May 10 (Test Day)
May 11-12 (PRO Circuit)

 Round 2

June 14 (Test Day)
June 15-16 (LONG Circuit)

 Round 3

July 5 (Test Day)
July 6-7 (NELSON Circuit)

 Round 4

August 2 (Test Day)
August 3-4 (LONG Circuit)

 Round 5

September 6 (Test Day)
September 7-8 (PRO Circuit)

The 2024 Competition Licence will be available for purchase on December 1st, 2023. As usual, riders that purchase their licence before February 1st will be granted a free Test Day.

The 2023 Photo Book will be available for purchase shortly on our website. It is a collection of pictures that many photographers took during the season. The Super Series extends special thanks to all the photographers that shared their work with the series.

To find out more about the schedule, competition licences or the racing schools, please visit our website at www.super-series.ca.

Toronto, Ontario – The much-anticipated factory Kawasaki program of Jordan Szoke and Trevor Dion has come to an early end, as the two have finalized plans to run a separate effort at the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship finale in Shannonville later this month.

The split has been described as amicable, with both parties agreeing to go in their own direction for round five of the GP Bikes Pro Superbike class and beyond.

Szoke will maintain the status quo aboard his factory ZX-10R Ninja machine, though with a change in sponsorship as he continues with the official Canadian Kawasaki program from SMP. The 14-time champion currently sits fifth in the overall standings, scoring a podium in round one.

The biggest change comes for Dion, who will remain mounted on Kawasaki machinery for the season finale but now as a privateer with continued support from LDS Consultants.

The 21-year-old will run a privately owned 2019 ZX-10R Ninja in the feature Superbike category, a bike he has tested on throughout the 2023 campaign between national rounds, but perhaps more notably will also return to the Liqui Moly Pro Sport Bike grid for the season finale.

Dion won the Sport Bike championship a year ago aboard a privateer LDS Consultants Kawasaki, becoming the first rookie in class history to do so and the third-youngest champion ever, before joining forces with Szoke prior to this season for his first full Superbike effort.

While it’s been a frustrating year at times for the feature class rookie, sitting eleventh in the overall standings, Dion has shown flashes of brilliance – including a podium finish at Grand Bend – and remains in the thick of the Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year battle, trailing John Fraser and Paul Macdonell by only eight points.

Both Dion and Szoke will continue to play a pivotal role in the Constructors Championship for Kawasaki, where the brand looks to erase their 32-point deficit to Yamaha for third in the overall standings.

Aside from his changing Superbike plans, Dion’s return to the Sport Bike class will be his first appearance since capturing his #1 plate at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park a year ago – a number he’ll now get to put on his ZX-6R Ninja machine.

“Having earned it last season, I’m pretty excited to be able to run the number-one plate at a national event, even if it’s for only one round,” Dion said. “Obviously Superbike is still going to be my main focus of the weekend, but I’m excited to hop on a Sport Bike again and have some fun after having some of the best races of my career in that class last season.”

The reigning champ won’t be able to defend his title but could play a significant role in deciding the 2023 crown, where David MacKay currently leads Matt Simpson by just 16 points. Ironically, it was MacKay who came closest to Dion one year ago, losing out on the championship by just eight points after a last-round comeback fell short.

The final round of the Bridgestone CSBK season is scheduled for September 15-17 at Shannonville Motorsport Park, just east of Belleville, Ontario, with a Superbike tripleheader on tap to decide the 2023 crown.

For more information on the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship, visit www.csbk.ca

Toronto, Ontario – The Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship will return to Shannonville Motorsport Park to close out its season, but it won’t be the same circuit fans remember from five months ago as CSBK officials have confirmed the use of the 15-turn, interior “long track” layout.

After running the perimeter nine-turn, 2.4 km “pro track” in round one, the original plan was to return to SMP on the roughly 4 km layout to close out the season, a configuration not used on the national calendar since 2006.

Following consultation with a number of top pro riders during recent testing, the decision was made by CSBK and Shannonville officials to proceed with the long track layout.

The tighter configuration and longer lap have generated plenty of thrilling races in CSBK’s history, and previously served as the season finale from 2002-2005.

That span included a pair of nail-biting title deciders, as Pascal Picotte finished sixth to narrowly win the 2003 title by five points over Steve Crevier and race winner Francis Martin, only for Martin to get his revenge two years later and defeat race-winner Picotte by five points for his second championship.

It seems very likely history will repeat itself again in 2023, as the finale will serve as the title deciding shootout between championship leader Alex Dumas and reigning champion Ben Young, with Dumas carrying a three-point lead into the tripleheader.

Picotte currently holds the overall lap record around the long track layout with a time of 1:42.820, set during qualifying in 2004 aboard a factory Yamaha YZF-R1.

The Bridgestone CSBK season finale will feature three Superbike races and a full doubleheader for each of the remaining six national classes throughout the weekend, September 15-17 at the circuit just east of Belleville, Ontario.

More information can be found on the series’ official website at CSBK.ca.

For more information on the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship, visit www.csbk.ca

Bowmanville, Ontario – The fight for the 2023 Canada Cup drew almost even on Sunday, as Ben Young conquered Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for a third time to complete the tripleheader sweep in round four of the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship.

After cruising to wins in race one on Saturday and race two earlier on Sunday, Young continued to be no match for any of his GP Bikes Pro Superbike competitors as he grabbed the lap one holeshot and never looked back, dominating en route to a seven-second victory.

That in itself would have been enough to make matters interesting in the championship fight, but it was aided for a third consecutive time by Sam Guerin, who continued to make life difficult for points leader Alex Dumas in the penultimate round.

Guerin would lead a thrilling four-rider battle for all 18 laps, repeatedly denying attempts from Dumas to limit the damage in second, who did all he could to survive a separate attack from Tomas Casas and Jordan Szoke.

Ultimately, Dumas would have to settle for yet another third-place finish, watching as Young trimmed his championship deficit from 36 points to now just three entering the final round at Shannonville Motorsport Park next month (another tripleheader).

“What an accomplishing weekend for the whole team, and such a big points haul. I guess it’s going to come down to the wire as always!” Young said. “Our Van Dolder’s Home Team BMW has just been phenomenal all year, and I owe another thanks to Sam for taking some points off Alex, which is good for BMW in the Constructors as well.”

Young also brought home the annual King of Mosport award for the second time in three years, scoring the most total points across the weekend as he becomes the second-winningest rider in CTMP history.

His sensational comeback – one of the largest in CSBK history – has set up a last round showdown at Shannonville in September, the same venue where the season began with a pair of Dumas victories in May.

“We’re really looking forward to Shannonville. We got nothing to lose now after crawling back,” Young added. “Alex is obviously really good there, but Alex is good everywhere so hopefully we can take it to him a couple more times.”

The title shift owes a lot to the breakthrough performances of Guerin, who capped off the best weekend of his career with a trio of runner-up finishes aboard his EFC Group BMW.

While that severely impacted Dumas’ title hopes, it also caused a massive swing in the Constructors standings, where BMW turned their 28-point deficit into a 37-point lead.

“It’s been a dream weekend, hopefully we put on a good show for all the fans here,” Guerin said. “I got to give a huge thanks to BMW for helping make this happen, and I hope we can help bring home the Constructors championship for them.”

Sunday brought a merciful end to what was a disaster weekend for Dumas, watching his comfortable lead evaporate atop the championship as the Purple Skull Brewing/Liqui Moly Suzuki star now finds himself on the back foot entering SMP.

“Not at all what we were expecting, but we still have the lead,” Dumas said of his three-point advantage. “At least we’re comfortable at Shannonville, so hopefully we can make up for this next month and bring home the championship.”

The similar results continued for Casas and Szoke, who each finished in the top-five in all three races (but in swapped positions for race two), with Casas taking fourth and the 14-time champion fifth in race three.

The strong weekend moves Casas into a comfortable fourth in the championship as he trails Guerin by 33 points aboard his Parts Canada Yamaha, helping his brand extend their advantage over Kawasaki for third in the Constructors as well.

As for Szoke, the LDS Consultants Kawasaki rider completed his best round of the year to more than double his championship output, jumping three spots to fifth in the overall point standings.

His LDS Consultants teammate Trevor Dion would wind up one spot behind in sixth after a mechanical failure in race two, coming out on top of a lights-to-flag duel with Eli Daccache aboard his Milwaukee Yamaha.

RLS Contracting Suzuki teenager John Fraser built up his lead atop the Brooklin Cycle Racing Pro Rookie of the Year battle, finishing eighth once again to take a four-point lead over Acme Motorsports Yamaha rider Paul Macdonell entering round five.

The feature class will now take a four-week breather before returning to Shannonville Motorsports Park for the decisive showdown, September 15-17, where Young and Dumas will go toe-to-toe for the 2023 Canada Cup across three feature class races.

Full results can be found on the series’ official website at CSBK.ca.

For more information on the Bridgestone Canadian Superbike Championship, visit www.csbk.ca